Comments by "Vikki McDonough" (@vikkimcdonough6153) on "MN Hoche - Guide 419" video.

  1. 1. Starting with one of the aircraft-carrying Fletchers, how much of the remaining armament would have to be sacrificed to free up enough weight to give that floatplane a proper hangar? 2. Why were 6ish-inch heavy-AA guns so successful on land but so unsuccessful at sea? 3. What're your favorite "So anyway, I started blasting" moments in naval warfare, other than Friday the 13th? 4. Given that WWII-era fire-control computers were sophisticated enough to take into account the couple-of-percent latitudinal variation in the strength of the Earth's gravitational pull, why didn't they? It seems like one of the simplest possible corrections to implement, given that it produces a straightforward range offset varying only with latitude (unlike, say, the corrections necessary to account for the Coriolis effect, which produces an azimuth offset that depends on both latitude and range, or those necessary to account for crosswinds, which produce offsets in both range and azimuth that depend on the wind speed and the density and rotation rate of the shell).
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